Booking Agent Needed

Posted on July 12, 2023

Core Function

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Securing gigs for client’s of kensambury.com in Trinidad, Jamaica, St Lucia, Grenada and other territories by maintaining relationships with the right people: promoters, clubs, Soca artiste, etc. <Click for a Brief Background of what kensambury.com is>  

Responsibilities

  • Develop contacts with individuals and organizations, and apply effective strategies and techniques to ensure their clients’ success.
  • Keep informed of industry trends and deals.
  • Collect fees, commissions, or other payments, according to contract terms.
  • Arrange and attend meetings concerning issues involving the artiste’s clients and sponsors.
  • Confer with the team to develop strategies for the client, and to explain actions taken on the artiste’s behalf.
  • Schedule promotional or performance engagements for kensambury.com.
  • Manage business and financial affairs for kensambury.com, such as arranging travel and lodging, selling tickets, and directing marketing and advertising activities.
  • Obtain information about or otherwise ensure that the team’s working conditions and accommodations meet the required specifications.
  • Simple Clerical Duties – Develop quotes, invoices and presentations.
  • Prepare periodic accounting statements for kensambury.com
  • Periodically updating the kensambury.com Social Media.

Skills & Requirements

  • Customer and Personal Service – Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Prioritization – Determine which tasks are most important and urgent. Use techniques like the Eisenhower Matrix to categorize tasks into four quadrants: important and urgent, important but not urgent, urgent but not important, and neither urgent nor important
  • Use tools and technology –  Utilize tools like task management apps, calendars, or project management software to organize and track your tasks.
  • Effective communication – Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Persuasion – Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
  • Negotiation – Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Social Perceptiveness – Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Time Management – Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
  • Complex Problem Solving & Critical Thinking – Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Active Learning & Listening – Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Sales and Marketing – Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  • A Valid Passport & willing to travel.
  • Five CXC, CSEC or GCE passes including Math and English. A Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Communications or International Relations will be an asset.

Work Styles

  • Initiative – Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
  • Persistence – Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
  • Attention to Detail – Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
  • Dependability – Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
  • Achievement/Effort – Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
  • Cooperation – Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
  • Adaptability/Flexibility – Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
  • Leadership – Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
  • Independence / Working from home – Job requires developing one’s own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
  • Social Orientation – Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
  • Self Control – Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
  • Innovation – Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.

Compensation:

Up to $500 usd per Carnival season
+ A fixed percentage of all the bookings arranged.
Minimum of 5 bookings secured and closed per season.

Deadline:
6pm Tuesday 30th April, 2024 (but if we find a suitable candidate before that we will close the applications early)

Summary:

Our objective is to allow the booking agent the opportunity to earn exponentially while driving business through well established relationships.

To Apply click here.

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